Every other tomato is bullsh t : Meet NY s prized produce
How the Hudson Valley became home to a coveted Italian tomato
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Twenty years ago, Cesare Casella gave Rick Bishop of Mountain Sweet Berry Farm in Roscoe a tomato seed to grow that Casella snuck over from his hometown of Lucca, Italy. Today this Italian heirloom, prized by CSA members, sauce makers and tomato sandwich lovers, has found a prominent home at farms throughout the Hudson Valley.Rick Bishop
Rick Bishop first heard of the Canestrino tomato 20 years ago when chef Cesare Casella approached him at the New York City Greenmarket in Union Square. Casella often sourced Bishop’s Catskills-grown produce for his New York City restaurant at the time, Beppe, but this was the first time he asked Bishop to plant a special crop for him.
Palestinian Seeds Come to America, Stories and Artwork Included Feb 20, 2021 Vivien Sansour is bringing yakteen to the United States. Photography by Samar Hazboun
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Vivien Sansour founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library in the West Bank in 2014 as a way to both preserve Palestinian culture at home and to share it with the world. More than a half-decade later, those efforts and her seeds have found their way into the American marketplace, specifically in the form of the Hudson Valley Seed Co. seed catalogue. The New York-based company is selling seeds for Sansour’s
yakteen gourd, which it believes marks the first time that a Palestinian heirloom variety has been available commercially in the United States.